[Bug 2082608] Re: 22.04.5 to 24.04.1 sets /etc/samba/smb.conf to default

[Miriam España Acebal]

Hello Fabrizzio,

thanks for sending us the smb.conf file. I used it when I followed
Andreas's steps in comment #2 above [1]. Also get the prompt screen too,
and it slightly changes the configuration (I mean, it doesn't keep it as
it was totally), as you can see here:

root at Jsamba:~# diff smb.conf.fromuser /etc/samba/smb.conf
222c222
<    path = /var/spool/samba
---
>    path = /var/tmp
root at Jsamba:~# 

It is the same for you or the new /etc/samba/smb.conf loses all your
settings?

Awaiting for your news, I'm marking this as "Incomplete" until then.
Thanks in advance.

[1]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/2082608/comments/2

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Title:
  22.04.5 to 24.04.1 sets /etc/samba/smb.conf to default

Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Upgraded Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS server to 24.04.1 LTS using do-release-upgrade.
  Before upgrade, server was fully up-to-date and freshly rebooted.

  I was not prompted during the upgrade process, about a configuration
  change of smb.conf.

  Yet after the upgrade, the contents of /etc/samba/smb.conf are the
  defaults, all custom settings were lost, and there is no
  "smb.conf.dpkg-old" nor similar file on /etc/samba/

  More specifically the upgrade was samba:amd64
  2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu1.6 -> 2:4.19.5+dfsg-4ubuntu9

  ### What you expected to happen

  Either /etc/samba/smb.conf untouched, or the usual "a new version of
  configuration file blahblahblah is available but yours is locally
  modified" with the prompt on what to do.

  ### What happened

  /etc/samba/smb.conf was just overwritten with defaults.

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